Our vision
The fastest way to create television content
TinkerList is designed out of frustration over the way things are done now in the TV landscape. Stop copy-paste. TinkerList wants to support creative TV makers – not the tech guys – by providing the ultimate user experience when producing content. Making television should be fun!
Meet our team
We are a group of creative media professionals, designers, and technical experts with years of experience in media production and business processes
Erik Hauters
CEO & FOUNDER
The inspirer of TinkerList, Erik Hauters, has over 15 years of experience as a television director of talk-, music-, panel-, and gameshows. His first-hand observations of editors’, directors’ and producers’ frustrations gave way to TinkerList, an online unified platform to support creative television makers. Check out Erik’s blog for his portfolio and interesting reads on directing and TV creation.
Time and time again, I saw writers and producers copy paste content, and waste their energy on tedious jobs. As a director, I was left with scripts that were not the most recent version, videos in the wrong codecs, and images that were dispersed all over the place. So I envisioned one environment, in which all participants of the editorial team (editors, copywriters, graphic designers,…) and the production crew (director, producer, technical operators,..) can collaboratively create and adapt content during all stages of the television production process.
Kurt Victoor
Sales Director & Co-founder
Kurt is our ever enthusiastic sales director and business guru. Kurt studied industrial design and worked several years as a designer until he was ready for his own adventures. He moved to France and started his own architectural firm from scratch. For 5 years he was CEO, leading a creative team and taking care of the business development. In 2015 he joined forces with Erik in order to bring Tinkerlist to the international scene.
Vero Vanden Abeele
UX Director & Co-founder
Vero has been teaching and practicing the art of User Experience design, for over 15 years, as a professor of human‐computer interaction at the University of Leuven (Belgium). She is an expert on the field of usability and user interfaces. As Erik’s sparring -and real life- partner she ensures that UX is no mere gimmick, but remains at the forefront of TinkerList. Vero watches over our team of designers and developers and sees to it that the user always comes first.
Andreas Creten
Technical director & Partner
Andreas is a software engineer and an entrepreneur who loves developing apps and building teams. In 2008, he co-founded madewithlove, an app development company. Andreas loves pushing startups forward, either as a co-founder or CTO. As partner of TinkerList, Andreas supervises the development team, and lends his software architect brains to ensure that TinkerList can scale. As a firm believer in data & knowledge sharing, you’ll also regularly find Andreas working on open-source projects and speaking at conferences.
Márcio de Sousa
Lead Software Engineer
Márcio is our software engineer hero with a background in web applications and telecommunications. He is passionate about front-end work, but he won’t turn his back at the the back-end side of things either. His current interests are mobile applications and full Javascript architectures.
Argyro Moraiti
Product Architect
Argyro is a UX and Interaction designer educated as an HCI engineer. She is the jack of all trades. Her mission is to ensure UI/UX consistency, design the onboarding of TinkerList, and enable communication between the design and development teams. Part of her work is also the website and marketing of TinkerList.
Dieter De Jaeghere
Possibility seeker
Dieter always worked in the world of television and made his way from cameraman to sales. He had sales experience in his own shop, Camera Crew Services and worked in retail as well. Now, he’s going to help TinkerList grow and search for new opportunities in Belgium and abroad. He has a creative side as well and will cook lunch from time to time.
Brendan Clare
Freelance CFO
Brendan is our freelance advisor for all matters related to finance and legal. During his career at imec (former iMinds), Brendan was the focal point of contact towards Tinkerlist within the business incubation program imec.istart (formerly known as iStart). He has meanwhile moved on to another challenge outside imec, but remains committed to the future success of Tinkerlist.
Charlotte de Roey
Customer Happiness
Charlotte is responsible of onboarding, training and taking care of TinkerList users. From the start until the celebration of a successful production and evaluation afterwards. She’s the one to go to with all your questions and suggestions. Gladly she will support you with good advice on how to work with TinkerList. Next to that, she likes to write for the website and social media or is looking for new colleagues to join the TinkerList team.
Gregori Maus
Senior PHP back-end developer
Brazilian and happy by nature, Gregori has been working for almost a decade as a back-end developer, and during this time his love for development has been growing more and more. Although always in search for new technologies and better ways to do what he does, he never leaved aside the PHP language, the apple of his eyes.
Matías Gonzalez
Senior Full-Stack developer
Matías is a systems analyst and passionate full-stack web developer since 2005. Experienced in multiple code languages and different types of problems solving, he is always seeking for a clean solution to every issue, paying a great attention to details at every moment of the process.
On his free time, he enjoys doing kitesurf, rock climbing and snowboarding.
Luca Badts
Marketing intern/assistant
Luca will be helping out with the marketing of TinkerList. She is a student with education in the media and entertainment business. Now she is finishing her second college degree in management and entrepreneurship. Besides het studies and working with TinkerList Luca is starting a small entertainment company that is focused on children.
Latefa Arredouani
Management Assistant
After Latefa’s medical management assistant training at Leuven University College, she started working at University Hospital of Leuven Gasthuisberg. Latefa is currently still working there on a half-time basis, but she found a new challenge in addition to her work at the hospital. That’s how she ended up at Tinkerlist. Her job here is to take care of all the administration of the company and colleagues.
Partners
Limecraft
Limecraft is a Belgian company specialising in media production technologies. Their focus is finding new ways of collaboration to enable producers to explore new distribution venues and creative opportunities.
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DzjinTonik
DzjinTonik is a leading partner for IT business solutions in the audio-visual industry. They specialise in the Process and Project Management of TV production.
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Spott
Spott is a European start-up working on transforming the way users interact with video and TV content. They work in introducing the next generation of video commerce.
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Scriptease
Scriptease gives you a full autocue service. So not only the devices but also people to operate the devices. You can count on Scriptease for the support of your speaker, from the preparation till the final show. We work closely together for our Autoscript integration.
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Studio Begonia
Studio Begonia is a company that specialises in prompting and studio floor managers. They have a network of freelancers with the best people in their profession. They don’t only work for television but also concerts, events and congresses. We work closely together for our Autoscript integration.
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EVS
EVS Broadcast Equipment is a leader in the design of hardware and software for the production and playout of sport, news and TV programs in both live and near live environements.
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